Emerging Real Estate Markets

The Glow of Real Estate: Do You Have It? How to get It!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2013 /

I have The Glow of Real Estate. It happens whenever I talk about Real Estate, marketing on the internet, and how hot our market is. It also helps to be standing in front of a group of my fave Realtors in front of a great big screen with CandysDirt.com projecting on a projector. The Glow…

Dallas Real Estate Market Almost Back to Golden Days. Almost. Sigh.

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2013 /

So D’Ann Petersen told Sheryl Jean at the Dallas Morning News that home prices are rising so fast in North Texas, she’s tempted to sell her house. D’Ann Petersen is a business economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. My question for her is this: if you sell, where would you go? Inventory is so…

Floor Me: This Surface Has Your Footprints All Over It…

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2013 /

That’s because it’s made of sand. Sure, I found it at the delectable Albany in Nassau, but what a great floor for a family room! Details over on SecondShelters.com…

The Floor Report: How About Floors Made of Sand in Your Second Home?

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2013 /

I saw these coolio floors in a restaurant down in Nassau, The Bahamas, where we visited second homes this past weekend. This is the floor at a beach club restaurant called, appropriately, “Footprints”. Yes, the entire floor is made of sand. No, they don’t vacuum it but rather sweep and rake it nightly. The restaurant is adjacent…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Hillcrest Park Traditional is Two Houses in One

By Joanna England / March 25, 2013 /

So, I had a plumbing disaster at my White Rock Lake-area postwar traditional, so I’m reporting from our Forney bureau today as a means of escape from a horde of noisy dryer fans and dehumidifiers. While the three of us (me, my husband, and my 20-month-old son) are far from cramped at the in-laws’ house,…